Resat Nuri Guntekin

Resat Nuri Guntekin (25 November 1889-7 December 1956) was a Turkish author and politician.

Biography
Resat Nuri Guntekin was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1889, the son of a medical doctor. He graduated from Istanbul University in 1912, and he worked as a teacher and administrator at high schools in Bursa and Istanbul, where he taught literature, French, and philosophy. In 1922, he wrote his most famous novel, Calikusu, about the life of the young Turkish female teacher Feride. In 1931, he became an inspector at the Ministry of National Education, and he represented Canakkale in Parliament between 1933 and 1943. He later rose to be chief inspector at the Ministry of National Education in 1947 and then served as a cultural attache to France in 1950. He died of lung cancer in London in 1956 at the age of 67.